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tags: [ARPANET, networks, computer-history]
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created: Friday, October 25, 2024
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# c8173d17_TIMPs
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After the initial ARPANET was complete, the next major milestone was to enable
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access to the network regardless of one's proximity to a host node with an IMP
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connection.
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The idea was to allow a computer to access resources on another computer
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directly without connecting to a host first. This connective computer would
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connect to an IMP directly (but still transparently) as a 'dumb terminal' as
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with time-sharing and would not be a fully-fledged computing device. These
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devices would be called _Terminal_ Information Processors (TIMPs) for this
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reason.
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The development of TIMPs makes it clearer that the host machines on the ARPANET
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were not just connection and transmission nodes for their own purpose, they were
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loci for other non-host computers to gain access to an IMP, and thereby, the
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broader network. In other words computers would connect to a host which
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sustained a connection to an IMP.
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